Re: [Quickfix-users] Quickfix for FIX 5.0.....

[Oren M. <or...@qu...>]

Great points Nick.  If anyone wants a real fix engine, contact  
ni...@de....

--oren

On Oct 25, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Nick Evgeniev wrote:

> QuickFIX Documentation: http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/ 
> html/index.html
> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
>
> Hi,
>
> don't know about fix 5.0
> quickfix obviously needs architecture changes in it's current state  
> it suited well only for fix sandboxes, as it has no explicit  
> transaction management, hence it has no batching operations. it has  
> brokenly designed synchronization and as a bonus has numerous  
> errors in reset sequence handling and unexpected crashes in native  
> code in connection handling.
> The last two issues are implementation details, but the first two  
> are crucial for high volume transaction processing.
> We'd been evaluating quickfix for about half year, but finally  
> decided to drop it in favor of homegrown engine because of issues  
> I've written above.
> Just wonder that nowadays, after all the litrechure regarding  
> highspeed message parsing available for $30 bucks at amazon, we  
> have such brokenly designed product :(
>